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AD 1893.]

VOLUNTEERS.

[No. 4.

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(3) Every such officer and volunteer from the time of his corps being called out shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed on ual military service. If any such officer or volunteer, not being capacitated by infirmity for service, refuses or neglects so to assemble

hall be deemed a deserter.

(4) The period of such service shall continue so long as the Governor- Council may consider necessary, and shall end only by order of the

Governor.

(5.) Nothing in this Ordinance shall render any officer or volunteer hable to serve or proceed on duty without his consent beyond the limits of the Colony, except in the case of Coast Defence Volunteers under Part VI in cases where they may be employed in the waters of the Colony or waters adjacent thereto.

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allowances

service.

13. All persons enrolled in any Volunteer Corps, when called out on Pay and notual military service by the Governor, shall be entitled to and

pay

on actual allowances in like manner and after like rates and conditions, and to be military quartered or billeted in like manner in every respect and under and subject to the same regulations, as Her Majesty's Regular Forces, as far the same may by the Governor-in-Council be deemed applicable to the Volunteer Corps.

14. All persons enrolled and who, when called out on such actual military service as aforesaid, leave families unable to support themselves hall, during the period of their absence on such service, be entitled to relief for their wives and families, and it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to fix the amount of such relief.

15. All officers and volunteers who may have received wounds or injuries when called out on actual military service as aforesaid, and the widows and families of all such officers and volunteers who may have been killed or have died, within twelve months after having been wounded, of wounds received during such actual military service or have died within twelve months from illness directly traceable to fatigue or exposure incident to such service, shall be entitled to such pensions or gratuities as may be fixed by the Governor-in-Council: Provided that no pension or gratuity under this section shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum.

26 & 27 Vict,

c. 65 s. 18.

Relief to families of out on actual military service.

persons called

volunteers

*

Provision for officers and disabled on widows and families of

service and for

those killed

on service.

Ib. s. 20.

PART III.

DISCIPLINE.

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16. With respect to the discipline of officers and volunteers while they are not on actual military service or undergoing drill exercise,

Discipline actual

while not on